Friday, December 31, 2021

JOE BIDEN - 12 MONTHS OF FAILURE AND BRIBES SUCKING

Has any president failed this bad, this fast?: Hegseth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB0NSexQlxw&list=PLlTLHnxSVuIyw5jPrLmewrpBJAPYKhgml&index=2


JOE BIDEN SHARES PERV ISLAND WITH BILLARY CLINTON PAL, JEFFREY EPSTEIN

Bombshell Revealed about Jeffrey Epstein's Massive Real Estate Portfolio




RED CHINA DESTROYING AMERICA

This is the biggest threat to America: Domenech


Exclusive— Rep. Mike Waltz: Biden ‘Worst President for Human Rights in Modern American History’

U.S. President Joe Biden removes his face mask as he arrives to speak in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus October 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden spoke about the coronavirus pandemic and encouraged states and businesses to support vaccine mandates to avoid a surge in cases …
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In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) blasted the Biden administration, claiming the world now “sees weakness in the White House,” while calling Biden the “worst president for human rights in modern American history” and warning “trend lines” suggest the U.S. may cede its superpower status to China.

Speaking with Breitbart News on Thursday, Republican Rep. Mike Waltz, a Florida native who represents the Sunshine State’s 6th congressional district, weighed in on current issues, offering his unique perspective.

A colonel in the National Guard as well as a former White House and Pentagon policy adviser, Rep. Waltz was the first Green Beret to be elected to Congress. 

Biden Administration

Waltz began by blasting the current administration, highlighting human rights abuses taking place on its watch despite the president having promised when taking office to make the issue a centerpiece of his policy.

“I think Biden has been the worst president for human rights in modern American history, and I don’t think that’s an overstatement,” he said. 

“If you look at the amount of girls coming over our southern border that are being sold into human trafficking — upwards of 40% according to Doctors Without Borders; if you look at what’s happening to minorities and women in Afghanistan that he just abandoned; if you look at the ongoing genocide in China, and we could keep going around the world – he has done nothing for human rights!” he asserted.

Waltz explained why he is hardly surprised by the results produced by the current administration.

“You have the same team around Biden that was around [former President] Obama and they have the same underlying philosophy, so you’re going to get many of the same results as we had back then,” he said. 

He then criticized policies of the Obama administration that the team advising President Biden supported despite the undesirable outcomes of each.

“Back then this team thought the [U.S. Army deserter Bowe] Bergdahl trade was a good idea; thought the Iran deal was a good idea; thought giving everything away to Cuba and Venezuela with nothing in return was a good idea,” he said. 

“We can walk around the world not responding to a land invasion in Europe of Crimea and eastern Ukraine, was the ‘right approach,’” he added. “The march across the South China Sea, we can go on and on.”

As a result, he argued, the same outcomes could be expected.

“So you’re going to see that same result now and we are seeing the same results,” he said, adding that, “We’ve gone from the Abraham Accords to literally rocket violence on Israeli cities, Iran is on the threshold of having a nuclear weapon, and Russia [is] amassing on the Ukrainian border again.” 

Waltz went on to explain that the administration’s approach is seen as “weakness” among U.S. adversaries.

“They know they can get away with it and it’s all underscored by a philosophy of appeasement and concessions and ‘if we can just get people to the table with diplomacy first, then we can solve problems,’” he said. 

“And we all know that our adversaries see that as weakness and will take full advantage of it, and that’s exactly what they’re doing,” he added.

China

Claiming “the world sees weakness in the White House right now,” Waltz warned that “our adversaries are going to run with it and take as much advantage of it as they can” in the next two years.

“I think with China in particular, we are in a very dangerous period between this summer,” he said, “so that will be after the Olympics and after the Communist Party conference, where [Chinese President] Xi [Jinping] will essentially be re-elected for life.”  

“After this summer and between Summer ‘22 and November ‘24 when they will see an opportunity to take advantage of this perceived weakness,” he added.

Waltz remarked that he believes the “trend lines” are heading in the direction of a United States ceding its role as a superpower. 

“All you have to do is read Xi’s unfiltered speeches — not the watered-down translations they released to the public but the actual translations — where he openly talks about replacing the United States as a superpower,” he said, “and all the trend lines are heading in that direction.” 

“Their navy is larger than ours now,” he added. “The average age of their ships is half ours; they’ve launched more into space than the rest of the world combined.”

But what makes China the greatest threat, according to Waltz, is its having “co-opted” so much of American society to achieve its ambitions.

“I think the biggest threat is how they’ve co-opted so many aspects of American society and that’s what makes them unlike any other threat the United States has ever faced and more dangerous and a huge threat that we face,” he said.

Claiming that applies “from Wall Street to Hollywood to the sports industry to our politics,” he lamented how the U.S. is “awash” from Chinese funds.

“We are awash from Chinese money and the number of organizations, from Jamie Dimon at JP Morgan to [Jeff] Bezos at Amazon, that are willing to turn a blind eye for their next quarter balance sheet is really frankly disgusting and disturbing,” he said. 

2022 Beijing Olympics

Noting he was the first Congressmember to introduce a resolution calling for a “full boycott” of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics “back in February before it became cool,” Waltz claimed he initially pressed for altering the games’ venue.

“We’ve been pressuring the IOC (International Olympic Committee) and I want to be clear: the preference was for it to move the games,” he said.

“Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), myself, and others had been asking the IOC in letter after letter, engagement after engagement, to move the games when there was still plenty of time,” he added, “but once we were 12 months out it became clear that the IOC was not going to do that so we called for a full boycott.”

Waltz expressed dissatisfaction with other prominent figures for what he deemed hypocrisy on the matter.

“I would ask those conservatives, I would ask the athletes, I would ask the sponsors: did any of you who say, ‘well we shouldn’t introduce politics into athletics’ — number one: that ship has sailed — but number two: did they disagree with the IOC introducing politics when it came to apartheid? Did they think that was a bad move?” he asked.

“Because the IOC banned South Africa for the better part of three decades from any Olympic event happening in South Africa or even their team competing anywhere else,” he added.

Attributing the hypocrisy to money, Waltz highlighted his introducing of measures to limit Olympic sponsors.

“Why was it OK for apartheid but not now with China with an ongoing genocide?” he asked. “The answer, we all know, is how much money everybody is making.”

“So I’ve introduced measures to ban Department of Defense (DoD) aircraft from transporting anybody to the Olympics and banned the Olympic sponsors from selling their goods on military bases,” he added, noting his support for the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, “which finally, thanks to [Sen.] Marco Rubio’s great work finally passed.”

“Extremism” within the U.S. Military

He also addressed the Biden administration’s preoccupation with targeting the military to purge it of “extremism” as well as a recent Defense Department report detailing efforts to rout out “extremists” and ensure “only the best qualified recruits are selected for services.” 

“A lot of it, if you look at the language around it and you look at [Defense] Secretary [Lloyd] Austin’s language around it, they say extremism but then it’s followed very closely by white supremacism,” he said. “And much of this language came out in the wake of January 6 and is feeding into that narrative.” 

But, according to Waltz, the data does not confirm that narrative.

“The interesting thing is the actual data doesn’t support their narrative so that’s point one,” he said. “Because the report cited 100 instances of extremism — I haven’t really dug through it to break that down — but I bet you a good number of that 100 were gang-related or Islamic extremism-related and not all white supremacy.” 

Regardless, that number, he said, must also be seen in proportion.

“But even just take that 100 number on its face value out of the two and a half million in our military — It’s something like .005 percent,” he said. “Yet this is the number one priority of the Defense Secretary and the administration when it comes to the military, despite all of those other threats.”

Stressing the overall need to root out extremism, Waltz pointed to the unusual prioritization of the issue.

“I want to be clear: we should always root out extremism at every instance,” he said. “Since [Oklahoma City bomber] Timothy McVeigh and [Fort Hood shooter] Nidal Hassan, we’ve had to deal with a number of high-profile cases, and we should always root it out.”

“But the data does not support it being the number one priority of the Defense Department,” he added.

Waltz claimed the fixation on a constant threat of extremism “fits into the broader narrative,” though it isn’t reflective of the reality. 

“We had a hearing in the House and I asked the chairman about the growing threat and the rising tide of white supremacy in the military and I asked both the Democratic chairman and every witness where’s the data that supports that narrative,” he said. 

“It’s not there,” he added, “but yet they’re pushing this narrative.” 

He lamented the decrease in Americans’ confidence in the military.

“What is so disturbing is we’ve seen a significant drop in confidence in the U.S. military amongst the American public, which is probably the last bastion of confidence when it comes to a government institution,” he said. 

“According to the Reagan Institute: from 70% [confidence] to below 50%,” he added, “and so this narrative that they’re pushing is incredibly dangerous and I’m going to push back on it until somebody shows me the actual data, but [according to] their own report: .005%.”

Iran

When asked whether he trusted President Biden to fulfill his stated pledge to prevent the Iranian regime from attaining nuclear weapons, Waltz replied he did not.

I don’t have 100% faith in him backing that up, not with a military option,” he said. “The Biden administration — from [Secretary of State] Tony Blinken to [National Security Adviser] Jake Sullivan to [President] Biden himself — the typical first card they play is taking a military option off the table,” he said. 

“They just did it with Russia and Ukraine,” he added, “and so that makes diplomacy that much more difficult when you do that.” 

Claiming that such an approach is part of their “underlying philosophy,” Waltz said, “they just don’t seem to understand that you always leave all options on the table, particularly when you’re dealing with autocratic dictatorial regimes.”

“I don’t know how this ends up well at this point,” he added.

Waltz surmised that President Trump, in the event he’d have continued to a second term, would have forced the Iranians to negotiate a far better deal.

“I think if [former President] Trump had had a second term and continued the full maximum pressure campaign, even though there was some leakage with China in terms of oil sales, I do believe the Iranians would have come to the table from a position of weakness and we could have struck a much better deal,” he said.

But with “the same team now around Biden that they dealt with with [former President] Obama,” Waltz claimed the Iranians “see opportunity [and] advantage.” 

“We’ve seen that in how they’ve approached the negotiations and all they care about is telling us what we want to hear,” he said. “They’re deceiving the world so that they can get sanctions dropped and those billions will flow right into the regime and right into their terrorist proxies and right Into their nuclear program.”

Waltz also claimed he feared Sullivan, on a recent trip to Israel, “made it clear to the Israelis we won’t provide the military support for them to take a military option, so that they, the Israelis, have no choice.” 

“So I think that’s a big question mark sitting out there,” he added. “What happened in those discussions, and what message did the administration convey to our greatest ally in the Middle East?” 

International terrorism

Since the start of the Biden administration, Waltz claimed global terrorism “has gotten a big shot in the arm.”

“The message across the Middle East is jihad has won, democracy has lost,” he said, warning that terror groups may be planning further attacks on America. 

“I think al-Qaeda fully intends to attack us again,” he warned. “They’re developing the capability to do so.”

“I fully expect the United States to have to go back and deal with that either on the periphery or actually in Afghanistan, and right now, I think we’re seeing an axis of terror developed from Hamas to Iran’s proxies and ISIS in Syria and Iraq to Iran itself to the Taliban caliphate,” he added. “And it’s just not a good situation at all.”

Waltz has been a frequent critic of the Biden administration and its policies.

Last month, Waltz blasted President Biden’s “wrong approach” on Iran, calling a partial Iran nuclear deal weaker than the one struck under the Obama administration.

In September, he accused President Biden and Defense Secretary Austin of “selling this country a fiction” that the U.S. could manage a resurgence of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan  “with nothing” there, following the U.S. pullout of troops from there.

Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.

Biden's Staring into the Abyss -- and So Are We

 By Patrick J. Buchanan | December 31, 2021 | 8:24am EST

 
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin greets President Joe Biden during the US-Russia Summit 2021 on June 16, 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin greets President Joe Biden during the US-Russia Summit 2021 on June 16, 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul," wrote Emily Dickinson. "And sore must be the storm / That could abash the little Bird / That kept so many warm."

Staring ahead on New Year's Eve, at what appear to be the coming storms of 2022, this once-hopeful country is going to have to fall back on its reserves.

What storms?

Suddenly, the omicron variant of the coronavirus is sweeping the nation, shutting schools, shops, restaurants and bars that were only lately reopened. In this last week of 2021, new infections twice set records.

Is a fifth wave of the pandemic arriving, just two years after the first wave hit in March 2020?

What is hopeful here?

While the numbers of infected are exploding and deaths are rising anew, the omicron variant appears to be less severe and less lethal than the delta variant — and possibly less enduring.

From the medical community one hears the hope that the omicron variant could displace the delta and, as has happened in South Africa, burn itself out.

Still, if the present rate of infections and deaths continues, we could have a virus-related million American deaths by spring.

A second storm is economic, with inflation now running at 6.8%, the highest rate since the last days of Jimmy Carter and first days of Ronald Reagan.

Should this trend continue, inflation could be crushing to President Joe Biden's party and presidency next November. And, according to Thursday's Washington Post, that may be what is coming:

"Strong consumer demand, continuing supply chain troubles and the emergence of the omicron variant of the coronavirus threaten to prolong sharply rising prices well into 2022, potentially making inflation the premier economic challenge of the new year."

As for U.S. economic growth, forecasts for the first quarter of 2022 are being cut back from 5.2% to 2.2%.

Nor does the world look any more tranquil from this vantage point.

In the second week of January, U.S. talks with Russia begin, probably in Geneva, on Russian President Vladimir Putin's demand for assurances that Ukraine not be admitted into NATO and no U.S. offensive weapons be stationed in a border nation from which they can be used to attack Russia with only minutes notice.

The hopeful news: Putin reportedly ordered 10,000 of the 100,000 Russian troops on Ukraine's border back to their bases deeper in Russia.

Still, it is hard to believe Putin is bluffing when he says that if Ukraine is invited to become a full member of NATO, Russia will see to it that the consummation never comes to pass.

As for China, there is no sign it is backing off from any of its territorial demands — on its Himalayan border with India, with half a dozen rival nations in the South and East China seas, or with Taiwan.

Probably the best we can hope for in the simmering Taiwan crisis is that China will put off its insistence on annexation of the island of 24 million while it digests the lately free city of Hong Kong.

Negotiation with Iran on a mutual return to the 2015 nuclear deal appears to be nearing the fish-or-cut-bait moment. Should the talks collapse without Iran's return to the restrictions of the deal, we will, early in the new year, hear more animated talk of "other options" and "Plan B" — synonyms for U.S. attacks on Tehran's nuclear facilities.

Hovering over all of the above is the gnawing and growing concern among the American people about the physical and mental capacities of their president.

A month ago, a Politico poll found that while 46% of Americans believe Biden is mentally fit for his office, 48% disagree. In the same poll, only about one-half of all Americans felt Biden was "in good health."

All that talk of a few months back of Biden being a statesman of superior competence, perhaps a second Franklin D. Roosevelt or Lyndon B. Johnson, has died out.

Yet the maladies and crises the country confronts from inflation, China, Russia, Iran, the explosion of shootings and murders in major cities, and our bleeding border are not Biden's alone; they are America's. They are ours. If Joe Biden fails, the country does not succeed.

Yet, since mid-August, an average of national polls has shown Biden to be slipping underwater and sinking deeper. His disapproval rating is now 10 points higher than his approval rating, which sits in the low 40s.

What does the future hold?

The latest news brought to 23 the number of House Democrats who are retiring or looking for another position rather than running for reelection in 2022. Yet, to regain the House majority, the GOP needs a net gain of just five seats in the 435-member chamber.

Most pundits believe the Democrats will lose the House and, if they do, the U.S. government will grind to gridlock for the next two years. Not exactly a formula for the restoration of a lost national unity or purpose.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever."



Joe Biden Wraps Up 2021 with 31 Trips to Delaware

US President Joe Biden steps out of Marine One helicopter upon arrival in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, December 27, 2021. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Joe Biden traveled to Delaware 31 times during his first year as president, spending the majority of his weekends away from the White House.

The president and First Lady Jill Biden arrived Monday at their home in Rehoboth beach for a few days with plans to leave Wednesday for their home in Wilmington.

Biden is setting a new precedent for the president of the United States to leave Washington, DC, nearly every weekend.

It is unclear what Biden does at his home and who he meets with, as the White House has refused to release visitor logs from his two homes.

“I can confirm we are not going to be providing information about the comings and goings of the president’s grandchildren or people visiting him in Delaware,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in August.

The president also made 12 visits to Camp David in 2021, according to former CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller.

Although Biden’s destinations are fairly close to Washington, DC, the president’s travel requires a lot of resources, including complicated Secret Service security protocols and the use of the Marine One presidential helicopter. The press pool of reporters is also shuttled back and forth from D.C. for the weekend.

In August, Biden took nine Marine One flights in 18 days as he juggled time between the White House, Camp David, and his home in Delaware as the disastrous exit from Afghanistan unfolded.

U.S. President Joe Biden and U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, play with their new dog Commander at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on December 28, 2021. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

The White House has defended Biden’s many trips to Delaware, arguing that he deserves to spend his weekends at his home instead of the White House.

“The president lives in Wilmington. It’s his home. That’s where he’s lived for many, many years,” Psaki said in March.


Bombshell Revealed about Jeffrey Epstein's Massive Real Estate Portfolio



According to analysis published by the Miami Herald, Trump flew with Epstein six more times between Palm Beach and New York City than had been previously known. The records show that Bill Clinton flew with Epstein 26 times, 15 more than instances had been previously known. These facts have been barely reported or referred to in media coverage of the trial.

HILLARY & BILLARY: GLOBAL LOOTERS OF THE POOR!


Clinton Foundation Exposed | Over 14 Billion Confiscated!



Who knew Harry Reid was a saint?

When Harry Reid passed away, we heard glowing reports from most of the media and politicians about how great he was.

Obama said some very nice things. He forgot to say that he wouldn't have been President without Reid's despicable act of spreading an intentional lie that Romney had not paid taxes for ten years. The lie was like the fictional Russian dossier used to destroy Trump.

Reid was not ashamed of the lie. He said, “Romney didn’t win, did he?”

No one should celebrate a despicable liar who was willing to destroy someone with a lie in order to win. 

 Obama: "I wouldn’t have been president" if not for Harry Reid

Former President Barack Obama said following the death of former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday that he wouldn't be president were it not for the Nevada senator's "encouragement and support."

Reid helped Obama reach some of his biggest legislative accomplishments — notably the Affordable Care Act. Obama released a letter Tuesday that he sent to Reid before his death in which he said: "I wouldn't have got most of what I got done without your skill and determination."

Here is what Biden said:

President Joe Biden praised former Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who died on Tuesday at age 82, for being one of the "all-time great Senate Majority Leaders."

What he's saying: Biden noted in a statement that "for Harry, it wasn't about power for power’s sake. It was about the power to do right for the people."

The media, Obama and Biden also had great things to say about KKK leader Robert Byrd when he died. 

They forgot to mention that he was a KKK leader who filibustered the Civil Rights Act.

I did not hear anyone talk about systemic racism, white privilege, or white supremacists when the former KKK leader died. 

President Obama on the Loss of Senator Robert Byrd: "A Voice of Principle and Reason"

I was saddened to hear this morning that the people of West Virginia have lost a true champion, the United States Senate has lost a venerable institution, and America has lost a voice of principle and reason with the passing of Robert C. Byrd.

Senator Byrd’s story was uniquely American.  He was born into wrenching poverty, but educated himself to become an authoritative scholar, respected leader, and unparalleled champion of our Constitution.  He scaled the summit of power, but his mind never strayed from the people of his beloved West Virginia.  He had the courage to stand firm in his principles, but also the courage to change over time.

We saw stories about how Reid rose from rags to riches yet somehow, they forgot to mention that the way he enriched himself and his family was through abusing his power as a Senator and pure corruption. He did not get rich producing anything, leading a company, or through astute investing. He gave political favors for kickbacks

Reid was much worse and more dangerous than a common thief, yet the Justice Department and most Democrats obviously didn't care. He was above the law.

Corruption Scandals Led to Harry Reid’s Abrupt “Retirement”

You’d never know it from the mainstream media puff pieces of Harry Reid’s sudden retirement, but it was a long string of corruption scandals—including a recent one involving his attorney son—that drove the veteran Nevada senator to abruptly leave public office.

For nearly a decade Judicial Watch has investigated and exposed Reid’s involvement in a multitude of transgressions and JW even warned the Senate Ethics Committee, but not surprisingly, no action was ever taken. On multiple occasions the Senate minority leader appeared on JW’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” list for his role in a number of political scandals that got more serious as his seniority and clout in Congress increased.

As far back as 2006 Reid was in hot water for violating Senate rules by concealing a seven-figure payoff on a suspicious land deal orchestrated by a longtime friend known for political bribery and mob ties. The influential senator secretly collected a $1.1 million profit on land he hadn’t personally owned for years. To hide the deal, Reid transferred ownership, legal liability and tax consequences to a company owned by a former casino lawyer who has been investigated by federal authorities. 

It is no wonder that there is so much corruption by powerful politicians throughout the country when most of the media doesn't care, as long as they support their policies. They have never cared about the pure corruption of the Clintons and Bidens. They buried the stories of how they and their families went from rags to riches because of corruption as they supported them for higher office. 

We should celebrate people like Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, or Dolly Parton as they rose from poverty. We should not respect any politician who rose out of poverty through corruption

These politicians pretend they care about the poor, middle class, and minorities while they focus a huge amount of effort on enriching themselves. 

One of the most corrupt of all has been Obama. 

Google effectively had an office in the White House and they, along with Netflix, Facebook, and Twitter, were rewarded handsomely with Net Neutrality which saved those powerful companies huge amounts of money. 

Those wealthy companies then use their power to destroy others, stifle speech, campaign for the leftist agenda, and bury stories such as the Biden corruption. They are extremely dangerous for our democracy, freedom, and prosperity. 

Report finds hundreds of meetings between White House and Google

Google and its affiliates have had at least 427 meetings at the White House during President Obama’s tenure, according data from the Campaign for Accountability and The Intercept. 

The data, gleaned from White House meeting logs, showed that in all, 169 Google employees have met in the White House with 182 government officials. Not surprisingly, Google’s head of public policy, Johanna Shelton, had the most White House meetings of any Google employee, with 128. 

After Obama left office, he was rewarded by Netflix with tens of millions of dollars despite having no experience or content. The media not only didn’t care about this pure greed and questionable contract, but they also cheered. 

Media Thrilled ‘Very Talented’ Obamas ‘Got Paid!’ With Netflix Deal

The media and other Democrats are always complaining about too much money in elections and like campaign donation limits.  But somehow, they don't care when Soros, unions, Planned Parenthood, environmentalists, and Facebook's Zuckerburg spend massive amount of money to influence people to vote for Democrats.

Zuckerberg’s election spending was ‘carefully orchestrated’ to influence 2020 vote: ex-FEC member

Obama learned corruption early on as a member of the Illinois machine.

POLITICS: Obama and the Integrity Gap: The Machine

This must have been a coincidence.

Michelle Obama was promoted to vice president for external affairs [at the University of Chicago Hospital] in March 2005, two months after her husband took office in the Senate. According to a tax return released by the senator this week, the promotion nearly tripled her income from the hospitals from $121,910 in 2004 to $316,962 in 2005.

Once, Michelle got her huge raise, the Obamas could afford the mansion and land they coveted. They achieved their goal with the help of a crooked land deal involving criminal political operative Tony Rezko.

In 2008, the media didn’t care about Obama, or Biden’s history or corruption as they campaigned for them. They spent their time trying to destroy McCain and Palin.

A Curious Land Deal

In 2005, at a time Rezko was under federal investigation of influence peddling in former Illinois Gov. Blagojevich's administration, then-Sen. Obama and Rezko's wife Rita bought adjacent pieces of property from a Chicago doctor. Rezko would later be convicted of 16 of 24 counts of influence peddling.

The doctor sold one parcel to Obama for $1.65 million, $300,000 below the asking price, while Rezko's wife paid full price, $625.000, for the adjacent vacant lot.

Six months later, the Obamas paid Rezko's wife $104,500 for a 10-foot wide strip of her land to create a bigger yard and ensure a greater measure of privacy.

For the next three years, as most of the media has a lovefest with the Obamas about how great they are, people should remember how corrupt they truly are. 

They should also remember that:

It was Obama’s corrupt IRS that violated the constitutional rights of his political opponents.

It was Obama’s corrupt NSA that illegally spied on thousands. 

It was Obama’s corrupt EPACFPB, and Justice Department that shook down corporations and established slush funds to give kickbacks to leftist groups. 

Then those groups promoted Democrat policies, campaigned for, and donated to Democrats. That is pure corruption. 

It was the corrupt Obama who dictatorially ordered the corrupt Justice Department to stop investigating drug running terrorists to appease Iran. Where were the whistleblowers complaining about interference into the “independent” justice department. 

It was the corrupt Obama who shipped $1.8 billion in unmarked bills (taxpayer money) as kickbacks to Iranian tyrants who pledge death to America. 

It was the corrupt Obama who utilized the corrupt Justice Department and other federal agencies to illegally target Trump with lies while protecting the corrupt, criminal Hillary from prosecution. This criminal activity dwarfed Watergate, yet most of the media not only didn’t care, but they also participated in spreading the lies. These actions were the greatest threat to our democracy in my lifetime of 68 years. 

If we had an honest Justice Department, they would put away corrupt politicians and other criminals instead of going after political opponents based on fictitious information. 

If we had an honest media, they would seek to dispose of corrupt politicians instead of campaigning for many of them while intentionally burying stories of the corruption to hide it from the public.

The interference by domestic media outlets in our elections is much more dangerous than anything Russia, China, or Iran have done. 

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